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Authority in European book culture 1400-1600
Title
Authority in European book culture 1400-1600 / edited by Pollie Bromilow, University of Liverpool, UK
ISBN
1299814921
1317176944
1472410114
1472410122
9781299814929
9781317176947
9781472410115
9781472410122
1472410106
9781472410108
Publication
Farnham, Surrey, England ; Burlington, Vt. : Ashgate, 2013.
Copyright Notice Date
©2013
Physical Description
1 online resource (vi, 232 pages) : illustrations.
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Summary
"Through its many and varied manifestations, authority has frequently played a role in the communication process in both manuscript and print. This volume explores how authority, whether religious, intellectual, political or social, has enforced the circulation of certain texts and text versions, or acted to prevent the distribution of books, pamphlets and other print matter. It also analyzes how readers, writers and printers have sometimes rebelled against the constraints and restrictions of authority, publishing controversial works anonymously or counterfeiting authoritative texts; and how the written or printed word itself has sometimes been perceived to have a kind of authority, which might have had ramifications in social, political or religious spheres. Contributors look at the experience of various European cultures-English, French, German and Italian-to allow for comparative study of a number of questions pertinent to the period. Among the issues explored are local and regional factors influencing book production; the interplay between manuscript and print culture; the slippage between authorship and authority; and the role of civic and religious authority in cultural production. Deliberately conceived to foster interdisciplinary dialogue between the history of the book, and literary and cultural history, this volume takes a pan-European perspective to explore the ways in which authority infiltrates and is in turn propagated or undermined by book culture."--Provided by publisher.
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Taylor & Francis. EBA 2024-2025.
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Print version: Authority in European book culture 1400-1600. Farnham, Surrey, England ; Burlington, VT : Ashgate, [2013]
Format
Books / Online
Language
English
Added to Catalog
October 04, 2024
Series
Material readings in early modern culture
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (pages 199-224) and index.
Contents
Manuscript, print, orality and the authority of texts in Renaissance Italy / Brian Richardson
Books on the bridge : writing, printing and viral authority / Adrian Armstrong
Competing codes of authority in mid-fifteenth century Burgundy : Martin Le Franc and the book that answers back / Helen Swift
Authority through antiquity : humanist historiography and regional descriptions : the cases of Erasmus Stella, Johannes Cuspinian and Robert Gaguin / Albert Schirrmeister
Schiltberger's travels, 1396-1597 / Samuel Pacuks Willcocks
Print and political propaganda under Pope Julius II (1503-1513) / Massimo Rospocher
Denis Sauvage, Renaissance editor of medieval manuscripts / Catherine Emerson
Fictions of authority : Hélisenne de Crenne and the Angoysses douloureuses qui procedent d'amours (1538) / Pollie Bromilow
The early polemics of Henry VIII's royal supremacy and their international usage / Tracey A. Sowerby
Rebuking the princes : Erasmus Alber in Magdeburg, 1548-52 / Jane Finucane
Religious authority and publishing success in the early modern Jesuit penitential book printing / Robert Aleksander Maryks.
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